FREE: 25 Purple Beauty Bush Seeds

The listing, 25 Purple Beauty Bush Seeds has ended.

This is the first time I have offered an auction with my own seeds. I bought this plant about 25 years ago from an elderly lady who came around my neighborhood in a truck selling plants. I planted it in a difficult place that was where two fences met and was shady and damp. It flourished and produced many little babies from the fallen seeds every year that I gave to my friends. When I moved from the suburbs of Baltimore to the mountains of Western Maryland I just couldn't leave it behind. Of course the original plant had covered the corner and was too big to move. I bought one of the babies that I dug up in March when we moved. I kept it in a pot until it got warm enough to plant and it has flourished here in my new home for almost 10 years. I decided to take some seeds and offer them to people who many enjoy this bush as much as I have. In the spring it produces green leaves with tiny pink flowers at the part where the leaves intersect with the stems. In the summer the flowers turn to green berries. In the fall the berries turn a magenta purple. When the leaves fall off the berries remain, glowing in the snow. The bush has lovely arching branches. I have put below a link on how to grow the bush. I hope whoever wins the auction enjoys the bush. I plan on planting the seeds inside this winter and putting them all around the fence in the backyard where it is partially shady.

The American beautyberry bush (Callicarpa Americana), sometimes known as purple beauty bush, is a highly ornamental deciduous shrub. Growing to a height of 6 to 8 feet, the beautyberry bush produces incredibly charming light purple to violet berries in the fall. A drought-tolerant plant, beautyberry is adaptable to many types of soil within U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones 6 through 10. The purple beauty bush readily propagates by seed, planted in the spring.

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